About

Rahul Kamath is a highly skilled Data Scientist with over 5 years of professional experience in developing and implementing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms across Pharma, High-Tech, and Finance domains. He has a strong background in Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), having worked on multiple challenging projects requiring unique solutions. Rahul is well-versed in deploying and managing multiple ML models in production, covering all aspects of model life cycle management. He is currently working as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Athenahealth, a leading healthcare technology company. As a member of Athena Intelligence, Rahul is developing ML models for performing medical coding using Electronic Health Records (EHR) of patients and developing ML models capable of flagging potential insurance claim denials. Rahul is also leading 2 distributed teams of 6 data scientists, providing quality technical guidance and mentorship. He is experienced in full-stack web development, having worked on the development of multiple single-page web applications. He has strong expertise in leveraging cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) to deliver ML solutions and web applications at scale. Rahul has presented a research paper at the international conference PACLIC-29, subsequently published in the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) anthology. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, having completed his thesis under the guidance of Prof. Yutaka Matsuo, one of the foremost Deep Learning experts in Japan. Rahul is highly skilled in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Data Mining. He has hands-on experience with ML Toolkits like TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, and Gensim, Python frameworks and libraries like Django, Django Rest Framework, Scrapy, Pandas, Twisted, and Boto 3, and cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, Route53) and Azure (Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, ADLS, VMs). He is also proficient in JS libraries like Polymer, databases like MySQL and MongoDB, and OS like Linux. Prior to joining Athenahealth, Rahul worked as a Data Scientist III at ZS Associates and founded Scobo, a next-generation AI-powered people search engine targeted at the UK market. Rahul indexed more than a million professionals with detailed information obtained using distributed web crawlers and processed using Machine Learning algorithms. The service had around 20000 page-views